Word: indo-china
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...Marshal also countenanced certain outright military aid to the Axis. French Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...
...that the Japs might be content for the present with drives at northern and northeastern Australia. If so, the U.S. and Australia would have time to amass land, air and naval forces in the south. But "to be content for the present" did not sound like the Japs of Indo-China, Manila, Malaya, Singapore, Burma and Java...
...Conrad Helfrich, the war with Japan really began last July. When the Japanese sent warships into the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, he saw that they were after bases in Siam and Indo-China, and he begged his Government to let him attack forthwith. The Indies Government was more than half-willing, but after consultations with Washington and London the answer to Admiral Helfrich was: "No." He took his orders, but grumbled a warning: "If we give them time to prepare bases in Siam, they will be ready to attack Singapore in half a year...
...little boys who had been denied sticks of bubble gum. They had hoped to get the strategic French islands of the Pacific-especially New Caledonia, which might soon prove to be a vital base in the flanking of Australia-as easily as they had got Vichyated French Indo-China. But Free France, in the person of an admiral who is also a friar, denied them that pleasure last week...
...raid the defenders downed 21 planes. In another the Jap lost all seven bombers and nine escorting fighters while admiring Burmese watched American-made Brewster Buffaloes and Curtiss P-40s swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft on the ground, fired gasoline stores, burned down hangars. This...